Everything at the front of the car is off except radiator, which will come out easy, the radiator support is already removed so the engine will just about come straight out the front
Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 23, 2016, at 5:36 PM, Max Dillon via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > Maybe drop the engine and transmission on the ground, pick up the front of > the car, drag out the engine. Need a sled or something to drag it on. Ten > fence posts, piece of ply wood, go Egyptian? > > Cut the front clip off? > -- > Max Dillon > Charleston SC > '87 300TD > '95 E300 > >> On March 23, 2016 6:28:44 PM EDT, Rich Thomas via Mercedes >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> Do they have a forklift around, like for moving the cars? I would >> guess >> if you get the mounts undone, jack under it, and a chain on the lift >> points, they could just pop it out. >> >> --R >> >>> On 3/23/16 6:00 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes wrote: >>> I was at the pick a part today and came across a car I used to own. >> This is a prime example of stupidity. So I sold this to a friend of >> mine who drove it for a while then he sold it to a coworker of his a >> while back. This is a 96 e300 diesel. A couple of months ago my friend >> said she was wanting to get rid of it. Anyway it turned up at the junk >> yard. It had auction stickers on it as well as a dealer stock tag, >> which turned out to be one of my customers. If I had noticed it in >> their inventory I could have picked it up cheap. So this was a >> perfectly good car, she traded it in and the dealer sent it to auction. >> LKQ bought it there. So apparently they buy perfectly fine running cars >> at the auction to part out. Sad. The car appears to have just arrived >> and only had the condenser removed. I spend a couple of hours there >> stripping off anything of value. I ended up spending about $200 which >> was probably $800 or more worth of parts on eBay. Here is my question, >> has anybody pulled an engine fore at one of these places? Knowing the >> car I really want to go back for the engine before somebody starts >> hacking away at it. I see they have a frames out there but I am unsure >> about pulling one on site. If just hacking lines and cables should come >> out pretty quick I guess, just worried about the logistics of actually >> doing the pulling and getting it out of there. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
